He made Obama look bad, so yes he is now. But just because the left had to take back all the praise they heaped on Putin for opposing Bush, and pretend the "reset button" speech was just a figment of the imagination of a vast right-wing conspiracy, doesn't mean they're going to take back all the scorn they've heaped on Gary Kasparov for speaking out in opposition to Putin all these decades and repeatedly being humiliated and attacked for it. It would be like admitting Sarah Palin was correct about something, it's just not going to happen because liberals can never make a mistake.

/so we need a NEW anti-Putin superhero//and we need to make him THE GODDAMN BATMAN, so the basement dweller demographic will instinctively dismiss any suggestion that someone else might be the hero we need

He made Obama look bad, so yes he is now. But just because the left had to take back all the praise they heaped on Putin for opposing Bush, and pretend the "reset button" speech was just a figment of the imagination of a vast right-wing conspiracy, doesn't mean they're going to take back all the scorn they've heaped on Gary Kasparov for speaking out in opposition to Putin all these decades and repeatedly being humiliated and attacked for it. It would be like admitting Sarah Palin was correct about something, it's just not going to happen because liberals can never make a mistake.

/so we need a NEW anti-Putin superhero//and we need to make him THE GODDAMN BATMAN, so the basement dweller demographic will instinctively dismiss any suggestion that someone else might be the hero we need

Really? all of this happened in the real world? All I remember is praise for Putin from our Republican overlords. Your reality seems a little off from what I consider the real world.

Sarah Palin? that's the best example you can give? Get a smart Republican, there are several of those, but Sarah Palin? She has been confirmed a moron by all accounts. Not even her own party takes her seriously.

But that doesn't mean he's any friend of the environment. In fact, Putin and his political associates have been seizing vast tracts of previously protected land, logging old-growth forests and constructing vast summer palaces.